Emotions Make History

Ella Kilgallon, 'Emotion and the Creation of Sacred Space'

December 09, 2016 12:48 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

Ella Kilgallon is a doctoral student at Queen Mary, University of London. Her AHRC funded project investigates the lived and imagined spaces of female members of the Franciscan third order in thirteenth-century Italy. This paper was delivered at a research workshop on ‘Medieval Emotions and Contemporary Methodologies’ at Birkbeck, University of London, on 8 July 2016. In the paper, Ella discusses the life of Angela of Foligno, a female penitent and member of the Franciscan third order, and an...

Carolyne Larrington, 'Thinking About Feeling: Text, Emotion and Audience'

December 02, 2016 05:45 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB

Carolyne Larrington is Professor of Medieval European Literature at The University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St John's College. She is the author of Brothers and Sisters in Medieval European Literature (York Medieval Press, 2015) and editor, with Frank Brandsma and Corinne Saunders, of Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature (D. S. Brewer, 2015). This seminar paper, 'Thinking About Feeling: Text, Emotion and Audience in Middle English Secular Literature', was delivered at The University of...

Annalise Acorn, 'Punishment as Help and The Blaming Emotions'

November 17, 2016 10:56 - 1 hour - 65.6 MB

Annalise Acorn is Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. She works on the theory of emotions in the context of conflict and justice, and is the author of Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice (UBC Press, 2004) and a forthcoming book on resentment and responsibility. This public lecture opened a conference on 'Emotions in Legal Practice: Historical and Modern Attitudes Compared', and was delivered at The University of Sydney on 26 September 2016. In the paper, Acorn ...

Emma Hutchison, 'Humanitarian Emotions Through History: Imaging Suffering and Performing Aid'

November 04, 2016 21:24 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MB

Emma Hutchison is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her research examines trauma and emotions in world politics, as well as how the emotional dimensions of disaster images shape humanitarian practices. This paper, delivered at a conference on ‘Emotions, Media and History: Theory and Practice’ at The University o...

Brenton J. Malin, 'Electrifying Voices'

October 28, 2016 10:56 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MB

Brenton J. Malin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies and teaches media history, theory and criticism, and is the author of Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America (NYU Press, 2014). This lecture, 'Electrifying Voices: Technology and Public Speaking in the Early Twentieth-Century United States', opened a conference on 'Emotions, History and Media: Theory and Practice' at The University of Adelai...

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, 'Anger as a Political Emotion'

October 24, 2016 02:52 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. She is interested in the relationship between citizenship, democracy and the media. This paper, which focuses on the ways in which anger is constructed as a collective and motivating force in political protest (and challenges to these constructions), was delivered at a conference on 'Emotions, Media and History: Theory and Practice' at The University of Adelaide on 23 September 2016.

Katie Barclay, 'The Caring Touch of Lower Order Masculinity: A Case Study'

October 10, 2016 14:52 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB

Katie Barclay is a DECRA Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Adelaide. Her current project focuses on intimate relationships amongst the Scottish lower orders between 1660 and 1830. This paper, 'The Caring Touch of lower Order Masculinity: A Case Study of Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scotland', was presented at a conference on the theme of 'Gender Worlds, 500-1800: New Perspectives', at The University of Western Australia o...

David Matthews, 'In Search of Lost Feeling: The Emotional History of Medievalism'

September 27, 2016 13:20 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MB

David Matthews is Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies at the University of Manchester. He delivered this keynote paper at 'Feeling (For) the Premodern', a symposium held at The University of Western Australia on 2 September 2016. In the paper, Professor Matthews examines medievalism and apprehensions of the Middle Ages in three different phases: the Renaissance to the Romantics; the Napoleonic Wars to the mid-nineteenth century; and the aftermath of Victorian medievalism.

Clare Davidson, 'Translating Feeling in Troilus and Criseyde'

September 15, 2016 09:43 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

Clare Davidson is a doctoral candidate at The University of Western Australia. On 7 June 2016, she delivered the following paper at a workshop on ‘Translating Chaucer, Chaucer as Translator’ at The University of Western Australia. In the paper, she considers medieval representations of the anatomical and spiritual effects of desire, drawing attention to our role as readers and translators of the emotional body.

Iain McCalman, 'Shooting An Elephant: Why I am Writing a History of Human-Animal Emotions'

September 06, 2016 00:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB

Iain McCalman is a Research Professor in History at The University of Sydney, co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and an Advisory Board Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. In this lecture, delivered at The University of Western Australia on 29 August 2016, Professor McCalman outlines why and how a small episode of elephant killing during Theodore Roosevelt’s eleven-month African Safari of 1909–1910 led to his current book-in-progress on hunting and ...

Carol Lansing, 'Abduction as Ritual Humiliation in Late Medieval Italy'

August 29, 2016 13:20 - 42 minutes - 39 MB

Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy. On 12 February 2014, she delivered this keynote paper at a conference on ‘Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present’ at The University of Adelaide. In the paper, she argues that accounts of abduction in late medieval Italy can be read as ritual power struggles that were carried out through displays of emotion.

Stephanie Trigg, 'Chaucer's Silent Discourse'

August 19, 2016 00:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

Stephanie Trigg is Professor of Medieval Literature at The University of Melbourne and Director of the Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. On 14 July 2016, she delivered the 2016 Biennial Chaucer Lecture at the New Chaucer Society conference in London.

Laura M. Stevens, 'Fostering and Theft: The Hunger for Children'

August 14, 2016 12:52 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

Laura M. Stevens is Associate Professor of English at The University of Tulsa, co-editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and President of the Society of Early Americanists. She delivered this keynote paper on 2 July 2016 at ‘Emotions: Movement, Cultural Contact and Exchange, 1100–1800’, a conference jointly organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800) and the Freie Universität Berlin.

'Chaucerian Parrhesia' by Paul Megna

August 02, 2016 02:05 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

Paul Megna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Western Australia. On 7 June 2016, he delivered this paper at a workshop titled 'Chaucer as Translator/Translating Chaucer'. In the paper, he argues that Chaucer was acutely interested in exploring how fantasies of parrhesia, or frank speech, shaped subjectivity.

Fetishizing Emotions by Monique Scheer

July 26, 2016 07:34 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MB

Monique Scheer delivered her keynote lecture entitled 'Fetishizing Emotions' at the Emotions: Movement, Cultural Contact and Exchange, 1100-1800 Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin on 30 June 2016. The conference was jointly organised by The Freie University Berlin and The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800.

Miraculous Affects: Inventing Corpses in Late Baroque Italy by Professor Helen Hills

July 21, 2016 03:49 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB

Helen Hills is Professor of Art History at the University of York. She specialises in the art and architecture of Baroque Italy. On 10 February 2014, she delivered this keynote paper at a conference on ‘Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present’ at The University of Adelaide. In the paper, she examines the interplay between affect and religion through materiality in order to bring together material and spiritual approaches that have too often excluded each other.

'Love in Times of War: Shakespeare’s War Wives and Widows' by Bob White

July 13, 2016 15:05 - 21 minutes - 20 MB

Bob White is Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia and a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800). On 15 April 2016, he delivered this paper at a symposium on 'Emotion, Ethics and War' at The University of Western Australia.

Why Pious Renaissance Humanists Read and Defended the Roman ‘Atheist’ Lucretius

July 08, 2016 01:19 - 54 minutes - 99.8 MB

Ada Palmer presented this paper at the 'Afterlives of Hellenistic Ethics' symposium at The University of Queensland, on 8 April 2016. In the paper, she analyses why Pious Renaissance Humanists read and defended the Roman 'Atheist' Lucretius.

Louis Charland, 'The Distinction Between Passion And Emotion'

June 27, 2016 03:38 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

Louis C. Charland is a jointly appointed professor in the departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Western University in Ontario, Canada, and a Partner Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. On 17 June 2016, he delivered this paper at a workshop on 'passion' and 'emotion' at The University of Western Australia.

Patrick Gray, 'Shakespeare And Ethics Of War'

June 07, 2016 04:14 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MB

This discussion paper, 'Shakespeare and the Ethics of War: International Relations and the Problem of Honour', was delivered by Dr Patrick Gray (Durham University)during a Centre for the History of Emotions seminar on 'Emotion, Ethics and War' at The University of Western Australia in April 2016.

Cora Fox, 'The Lived Experience Of The History Of Emotions'

May 22, 2016 15:35 - 14 minutes - 25.8 MB

In March 2016, Cora Fox, Associate Professor of English from Arizona State University, was interviewed by CHE Education and Outreach officer Penelope Lee on her research, methods and sources. In this podcast, she discusses her work on happiness, why she pursued this emotion over all others, and how the study of emotions has changed her research and influenced her teaching.

Michael Barbezat, "The Limits Of Tolerance"

May 15, 2016 00:15 - 49 minutes - 90.5 MB

"The Limits of Tolerance: Arguments For and Against Religious Violence in the Middle Ages" was the second lecture in a "What's New in Medieval" series at The University of Western Australia, co-sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and the Institute of Advanced Studies. Delivered on 11 May 2016, it explains changing interpretations of the parable of the wheat and the tares in discussions of the use of deadly force as a response to Christian heresy.

Andrew Lynch on Medieval War In Modern Memory

April 23, 2016 02:08 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MB

This public lecture, the first in a 'What's New in Medieval' series co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, was delivered at The University of Western Australia on 18 April 2016. The lecture ranged selectively from the immediate post-medieval period to the present day, but with an emphasis on the period 1800-2000, and analysed long-term trends in the discourse of war in both high-culture and popular medievalism.

Kathryn Temple on Reason & Emotion in politics, from William Blackstone to the 2016 US Elections

April 14, 2016 05:26 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MB

In March 2016, Professor Kathryn Temple of Georgetown University visited the Centre for the History of Emotions as a Distinguished international visitor. While primarily based at the University of Adelaide during her stay, in March she visited the University of Melbourne for a study day on 'The Heart' to deliver a paper on "Terror, Torture and Tenderness: The ‘Feeling Heart’ of English Justice". While in Melbourne, she was interviewed by education and outreach officer Penelope Lee on her res...

Miri Rubin on her History of Emotions research

March 25, 2016 00:00 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MB

Listen to Michael Barbezat, Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Western Australia interview Professor Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London, about her history of emotions research. Professor Rubin is renowned for her work on the Virgin Mary.

Laughter In The Merry Wives of Windsor

March 24, 2016 04:20 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MB

LECTURE: Helen Ostovich delivered a lecture on Laughter in the William Shakespeare play, The Merry Wives of Windsor, at the Merry Wives of Windsor symposium at the University of Western Australia.

Against the grain: Reading the 'Book of Nature' in the European Middle Ages

March 08, 2016 00:00 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MB

Listen to Philippa Maddern, inaugural Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800). For medieval writers, ‘nature’ had an extraordinarily wide range of significance. Profound generic chasms separated the manorial account roll recording in apparently passionless detail the monetary value of woodlands, fields and meadows; the medieval romance, locating knightly ‘adventure’ in highly fictionalised forests; the tract on geomancy, explaining how personal...

Avant Garde Hamlet with Professor Bob White

February 25, 2016 00:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB

This is the first of our Shakespeare 400 series, in which we join many around the world in celebrating William Shakespeare, 400 years after his death. In this podcast Professor Bob White (The University of Western Australia) discusses his latest publication, Avant Garde Hamlet.

Monique Scheer- Tears, Shivers And Me, Or- How We Do Inspiration

February 24, 2016 03:11 - 45 minutes - 41.1 MB

A fascinating keynote from the Religious Materiality & Emotion' symposium, this lecture looks at how we think about agency in religious settings, how it is distributed between people’s bodies, souls, heavenly beings, and material artefacts (in a broad sense), and how this distribution is contested, including in academic discourse. Sheer argues that emotions play a special role in this process and that practice theory gives us a good framework with which to analyse it, using examples from her...

Charles Zika: Witches as "others": mobilizing emotion in 16th and 17th century images

October 22, 2015 23:49 - 1 hour - 63.6 MB

Professor Charles Zika (UniMelb) This lecture will explore some of the key emotional and visual strategies used by artists to identify witches as dangerous others.

Elizabeth Papp Kamali: The Role of Anger in Medieval English Felony Adjudication

June 15, 2015 05:53 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MB

Elizabeth Papp Kamali (University of Michigan): The Devil’s Daughter of Hell Fire: The Role of Anger in Medieval English Felony Adjudication This paper expands upon my earlier analysis of the meaning of felony, in which I posited that the medieval paradigm of felony was an act that involved deliberation and forethought, the exercise of a person’s reasoning capacity and volition in the absence of necessity, and moral blameworthiness, sometimes rising to the level of evil. Here I grapple wit...

Law, anger and mercy in Norwegian courts in the High Middle Ages

June 15, 2015 04:34 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

Prof. Hans Jacob Orning talks on “Once again I’m in trouble, as I have received the wrath of my master”. Law, anger and mercy in Norwegian courts in the High Middle Ages. Orning delivered this talk at the Emotions in the Courtroom symposium presented by The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100 - 1800) and the Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature, University of St Andrews at St Andrews in May 2015. In this paper he discussed the relationship be...